Letter from Maria Fitzherbert, London, to Mary Georgiana Dawson-Damer, 1831 November 3 : autograph manuscript signed with initials.

Explaining her "violent bowel attack" and how it has put an end to her plans for Brighton where she was expected; saying "Every thing is going on so wretchedly here that I cannot make up my mind what to do & at Brighton it is worse than London - there is a terrible squabble between Lord Howe and Erroll & the whole family are in a sad state of confusion and quarrel - the history is too long for a letter but I daresay you will hear of it at Paris - I think you will be imprudent to leave Paris in the middle of the Winter - I never like giving an opinion but I think you had better consider well what you like & what is best for you to do, I heard the people in your house wanted to continue but I know nothing for certain - the horrid Radicals at Brighton would not allow fire works or Illuminations for the K.'s arrival which has always been done - between you & me I shall remain here a little time longer to see what is to happen at Brighton - I am disgusted at the place being one of the oldest inhabitants - I cannot bear to see it in the state it is in - a good many people in Town send many enquiries after you;" relating family news and adding, in a postscript the news of the death of Charles Stanley.